A must for lovers of the cocoa-based desserts, iChocolate includes more than 60 recipes that span sweet and savoury dishes, including chocolate spaghetti bolognaise, molten lava cake and chocolate gravy. When you're not cooking up a storm, you can read up on the history of chocolate and get expert tips on the best ways to cook and enjoy it.

French Cakes, Pastries and JamsiPhone, iPad$6.49

Recreate an authentic French bakery in your own kitchen with the help of this beautifully-illustrated app. It's not as interactive as the other apps, and recipes are more or less laid out exactly as you'd find them in a printed book, but the up-shot is that it has a lot more content – nearly 400 pages of recipes, tips and photos.

Martha Stewart Makes Cookies$1.99iPhone

Skip the store-bought stuff and take your cookie-baking cues from the culinary queen herself. The Martha Stewart Makes Cookies app is chock-a-block with mouth-watering recipes including rum-raisin shortbread, chocolate-coconut macaroon cups and snickerdoodles. It's laid out in such a way that it's easy to jump between the recipe, ingredients, and a built-in timer.

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BBC GoodFood Cake Recipes$2.99iPhone

The BBC's cake-making app is excellent value for money, with more than 170 cake recipes on offer in an easy-to-navigate format. If you're stuck for ideas, you can go straight to the recommended daily recipes, otherwise you can browse by category or search by keywords. All of the nutritional information is included with each recipe as well, so you know exactly how good or guilty you should feel about your chosen dessert.

The Photo Cookbook - Baking$4.49iPhone, iPad

Are you more of a visual learner? The Photo Cookbook - Baking app will have you baking like a pro in no time, with each recipe presented as a series of high-quality photos with short captions. Even the table of contents, which divides the desserts into four categories, is laid out as a set of scrollable images.